Direct Media Publishing (ed.): German Literature from Luther to
Tucholsky. Great Library (Digital Library = 125). Berlin:
Direct Media Publishing 2007th ISBN 3-89853-525-8, DVD-ROM, EUR 19,90.
reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by:
Christian Nitschke, Cluster of Excellence "social dependencies
and social networks ", University of Trier
E-mail: \u0026lt; nitschke@uni-trier.de >
is now cheap to buy a recently published anthology of
Direct Media, which is preparing who gather
most important representatives of German art of writing in all literary periods since
baroque, with their most important works on a disk to
and thus make for complex and comparative
research opportunities available. The extent of
compilation "German Literature from Luther to Tucholsky is
amazing really. It includes in some full, some corpora
selected them the work of over 500 German-speaking authors
since 1500, adding that in fact the previously published volumes of the
digital library of German literature with the ä older anthology
, German literature from Lessing to Kafka 'as the core of each other. The
was selection of works by a single principle:
"Considering mainly were those writers who have written fiction
proper." [1] However, proving the result
mixed as fairly diverse. Even lesser-known name outside of the literary canon
collection found in the collection, which puts things in
genre boundaries no more restraint on the day. Whether drama
epistolary novel or short poem, all the literary effusions which have been identified for the
the authors as relevant are - so it seems at first
- in the selection included with Word. Even
theoretical writings such as Friedrich Schlegel's "talk about poetry or
scientific papers, such as Goethe's color theory or parts
Johann Joachim Winckelmann's writings found in this way
their way onto the DVD. The more amazing it takes off that a work like
Schubert's "Views from the Nachseite of science," one
was so central to the poetic understanding of the later Romantics
was apparently overlooked . The products of a
Arthur Schopenhauer sorely missed, his treatises
read but also enjoyable, as is partly fiction of his time.
were here, the selection criteria to consider authors only if they
beautiful literature have created, although certainly consistent
yet perhaps set too strict. Nietzsche, however, was with his
Dionysus dithyrambs and autobiographical writing "Ecce homo
" input to the compilation, even if the gentle reader would have wished
here also extracts of his philosophical work.
Anyway, it seems, some authors have been introduced only for the name sake
. The Bible is as incomplete as shown
the life work of Karl May, whose better-known novels were all ignored
. Fortunately, most of the goods so authors concerned
already with a separate volume in the digital library equipped
so that could be theoretically compensate for this shortcoming. It would impose
probably suspected that it incorporates no regard for the interests of the publisher
paragraph, if some of these volumes were not long out of print
. Whatever the case, the bottom line
remains a considerable body of German literature. Overall, the compilers
a stock of over 602 148 screen pages of material
have gathered that apart from the introduction also still short biographies
considered all writers, bibliographic references and illustrations includes
3578. [2] Among the latter are found not only
portraits of the authors or some decorative additions, but also
essential creative elements, such as drawings Wilhelm
bush.
often confusing, however, shows the classification of the individual texts. Although
separated the works for each author to this genera and
listed chronologically by publication or formation
stringent, but some well intentioned to provide sorting schemes
for little more confusing. Known stories such as Gottfried Keller
"Clothes make the man" or ETA Hoffmann's "The Golden Pot"
are assigned to sub-directories to their respective collections, making them suitable for non
Germanists little at first about the
index to be discovered. [3] Since the search function within the same
but often only vaguely or not at all strikes, the only
strained Browse or changes in the table view. Here
were listed all the works individually, in alphabetical order and
can be a simple search window quickly determine
if the full title is known. To type only the
keyword "Falun" will not result in any event, the desired
mines. Even the omission of a prefixed article
already spoiled the result. People with incomplete memory remains in
such cases, only the full-text search. As the latest research
state, the leaders prove
contrast with the decision, the "night guards of the Bonaventure" not to leave under the pseudonym
the eponymous author, but it assigned
August Klingemann, is identical to the long-disputed
Bonaventure seems clear for some years. [4] There may be more appropriate
would have been to sit on the popularity of the
pseudonym, especially since in addition to the vigils, no further
Klingemann's work has been taken into account. Other examples are even provided
available. So you wanted to leave with the other hand, Friedrich von Hardenberg
nothing to chance and joined his works under the
rather have a sound of his far more famous pen name Novalis. Who now
is uncertain whether the present anthology ever The works includes
not want to miss out personally to you has the opportunity to
is to see the contents of the DVD in advance on the Internet, where the stock was listed
to the second sub-directory. [5]
were used as standard text the introduced plants, the common
standard editions of German literature, although it
is not always necessary, be the latest editions. [6] On
desire to leave page numbers and page breaks of the used
Show Master , which makes the quotation accordingly.
pleasing must be limited by the errors in the texts. They are going to determine the extent
was hardly more than usual in the print media
fall out and read on no further negative. Larger Schnitzer
are rare, the more of Katja Mellmann
for the anthology "German literature from Lessing to Kafka," complained
errors were largely resolved. [7] At best, let in poetry is more often wrong
recognize letters and discovering similar phenomena that are typical
for OCR scanning method, which, however excusable, given the amount of text is offered
. Overall, you realize the lyrics indicated that they
were revised several times already and act accordingly seriously.
is at least not significantly disrupted the flow of reading.
The software installation proves to be rather uncomplicated.
With a few clicks are the application components on the
hard drive and start the search can. Who here would like to bypass the load times
, resulting inevitably in direct query from a DVD
, also has the opportunity for a free online registration
the contents of the disk completely on the hard drive to
ü ; transmitted. Well done, the Access to modern computers
even with extensive research in seconds, and
the DVD is for use no longer required. An additional
advantage of this approach: more books from the publishing program can be added easily
using the now available to the management software
existing expenditure, so that on the computer a
been completely Creating LinkedIn Library, has also
band in which cross-searches are possible, thanks to the supplied
indices of all published Products even at volumes that have not acquired
. For detailed studies, the volumes have always individually select
. The clarity is therefore retained. How to deal with
the program is under past reviews have been a lot said
and should therefore not be repeated here.
The most powerful tool of the digital library and the actual existence of digital texts
is without doubt the full-text search.
was first mentioned that there is now an option to determine
individual works inside the body itself, in which the
Search to be active. For this purpose, the contents of the menu item enabled
allow selection. Now can easily select all authors
to be shown later on, while all other
be hidden on command. If only specific genres or even
only certain works of the respective authors will be considered
can refine the selection in the subdirectories according
. In principle, each node can TOC
separately to select / deselect. The following searches
now respond only to the displayed Stocks, for example, that a search
only in the plays of Goethe and Schiller's no longer a problem. Who
is too demanding, who is also the possibility that information obtained in the fundus
full search results by some
narrow standard filter. The total stocks can
after eight generic technical headings, delimits
, bringing the number of hits is already a serious constraint
. Since, as mentioned above, the categorization of the material
and is advised, however, a little spongy, should the targeted selection
the substance to be considered in all cases of preferred
be given. To describe the value of the full-text search sufficiently to
can be only pointed out what work facilitation is
such as arise in the field of reception history: find out who wishes to
such as where and how the Varus Battle
of 9 n . BC was widely discussed in German literature, so rich
only a few inputs to rapid here and to go but respectable
results. For example, on the keyword "Cherusci *"
spelling-tolerant search can be obtained from the same 902 hits. This
arise not only from the obvious sources as Kleist's Hermann
battle or Lohenstein Arminius, but they also refer to
writings, they had been reading at a little research only considered
. In this way, located about those who
suspect the spread of the Hermann-myth in the first half of the 19th
Century go back to a populist tradition, of the memorabilia can
Karl's Always teach:
busy "all is almost no longer only with himself and his
pleasure, but something everyone with the public and general.
set in the ruling passion, monuments, even right up to the Cheruscan
Hermann, the farmers and citizens but know only through the mediation of the learned
flashed, the urge of the people to follow up with
his story again. "[8] In conclusion
remains to say that it is the anthology is
German literature from Luther to Tucholsky" to a successful compilation
that does not only have mass, but certainly also the
conditions for a meaningful work on the text offers. Although
the possibilities of digital media in not far from exhausted, but in our
is already fast-paced era of easy
while still high-quality access to literary works
, also still play a central role in teaching,
already a tremendous win. It is of course regrettable that, for copyright reasons
to the great names of modern literature of the 20th
Century had to do without, they must be developed for research on other ways
. Those who do not, moreover, the investment of 20 €
would we refer zeno.org the Internet portal that once
from the digital Library has emerged and a large part of there
published literature as well as other public domain works
for online users at all times accessible. [9] come here then
others, the philosophers and historians to their law, so that
hour-long reading sessions no longer a problem.
Notes:
[1] Introduction: German literature from Luther to Tucholsky, p. 6 I follow
the citation of the program. The page numbers refer to the
each of the digital library's page count.
[2] However, there are including some duplicates. Thus
about some of Wernicke's epigrams such as "Vare, Redd mihi legions" double
above, and Tucholsky's essay "As different as it is in
human life" is equal to twice before.
[3] This circumstance is due also that the
categorization experiments on the works of an author into
sometimes followed up and class directories like this "stories, fairy tales and writings
for Hoffmann appear in the final analysis have
little significance, since they contain basically any form of prose
could.
[4] To be fair, pointed out that the controversy remains
not go unnoticed, but in the blade's biography quite
find detailed mention. See Klingemann: German Literature from Luther to
Tucholsky, p. 317609f.
[5] Digital Library, \u0026lt; http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de/band125.htm> ;
(01/03/2009) - "Content" tab.
[6] I refer in this regard and in addition to the review of the
precursor product: Fotis Jannidis: Review of: Mathias Bertram
(ed.): German Literature from Lessing to Kafka. Direct Media
Publishing, Berlin 1998. In: H-Soz-u-Kult,
\u0026lt; http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensio/digital/cdrom/datenban/jafo0799.htm> ;
(01/03/2009). Jannidis' criticisms in the application remain essentially
date.
[7] See the Addendum to the above review.
[8] Immerman: memorabilia. German literature from Luther to
Tucholsky, S. 288,338th
[9] Zeno.org, \u0026lt; http://www.zeno.org/> ; (01/03/2009).
which emerged from the website and in part on the digital library based
Compilation of texts, on three DVDs
under the name "Zeno.org - My Library 2008" is published, probably
has the potential of this product in quantity as to exceed
quality. This would be examined in the context of a further review to
. See Zeno.org - My Library, 2008
\u0026lt; http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de/scripts/ts.dll?mp=/art/1274/> ;
(01/03/2009).
This review was supported editorially by: Christoph Schäfer
\u0026lt; schaefer.h-soz-u-kult @ gmx.de >
URL of the citation of this paper
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2009-1-201 ;
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